- "We thought we were struggling until we realized that our signs were wrong for our currents, so we just negated them and everything came out okay." "Negate? Oh, you mean negatize!"
negatize
transitive verb; derivation
To make a number that was formerly positive, or formerly positive negative, flipping its sign. Distinct from "negate" as "negate" could possibly also mean in this context "to make zero," a meaning that "negatize" does not have
Etymology : "negate" (to nullify or make negative in meaning) + "-ize" (to treat like something specified)
Source : Conversation between students in a lab for CAAM 335: Matrix Analysis, 10/20/2013
Last modified: 25 November 2013